If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for.
So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your soul rests safe and secure in the arms of God.
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
Trust that your soul has a plan, and even if you can’t see it completely, know that everything will unfold as it is meant to.
That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
Every being is a spark of the Divine, or God. Look into the eyes of the dog and sense that innermost core. When you are present, you can sense the spirit, the one consciousness, in every creature and love it as yourself.
The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
Lord help my poor soul.
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.
Music is a mantra that soothes the soul. It’s therapeutic. It’s something our body has to have. It’s very important to understand the power of music.
Guilt is a gift from Allah warning you that what you are doing is violating your soul.
Laughter is the language of the soul.
Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.